Week one of Come Follow Me is here!!
My sister has spent hours praying and then hours working to develop a slide show to help assist us in our family learning. It’s wonderfully convenient to have the pictures available for the family to look at as we discuss what the Lord has asked us to talk about. It helps keep everyone engaged, as they can read the questions and verses together.
Link here:
https://spiritualcrusade.com/2018/12/come-follow-me-we-are-responsible-for-our-own-learning.html
Mathew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you
“Seek and he shall find” (Mathew 7:7)
I’ve read that, and I have been taught that my whole life, but last night as we talked about the fact that it’s a promise that the Lord has given us, the spirit testified to my whole family of the truthfulness of that simple statement. The Lord keeps his promises, always. Therefore, we can be guaranteed that if we seek we shall find.
We talked about playing the game hide and seek, and how it’s not always simple to find, often it takes some serious hard work and diligence. I will often hear my kids yell…”say something, give me a hint!” With a silent response as the one hiding doesn’t want to give up their great hiding spot. These good hiding spots are of great value. Once discovered, it becomes a common hiding place and then the kids are all after finding the next difficult hiding spot. This is super hard when the same 7 kids play hide and seek in the same house. The one thing I have noticed is that they always find the one hiding, sometimes they have to work together, or even pull in reinforcements, like mom and dad…but eventually the hider is found.
This reminds me so much of the mysteries of heaven, and the truth to “seek and he shall find.” Asking is the initial part, it’s important because it helps us understand exactly what we are seeking. As we “ask” our Heavenly Father to understand something, that starts the process of spiritual hide and seek. We must put in our “seeking”. The definition of seek is “ the desire to obtain or achieve.” As we work diligently and stay focused on what we have asked… we will find. It’s not easy to achieve greatness…and we shouldn’t expect it to be easy to achieve understanding the mysteries of heaven. Think of all the degrees one can obtain in college….on an intellectual level. You could your spend whole life in college and never achieve all the degrees. Spiritual knowledge and understanding is the same, only greater …for eternity is a super duper long time….it’s going to take awhile to understand all of that. 🙂 However, the Lord wants us to develop countless spiritual degrees…he’s ready to teach us…we just have to do a little homework and a few labs!
The great part is, once we obtain that knowledge or understanding that we are seeking…it becomes part of our knowledge and we can move on to the next great question.
Luke 18:22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
Everyone has something that is difficult to give up in order to fully follow Christ. It’s part of mortality and the work of the adversary. However as we seek the Lord’s help… we can let them go one at a time. I love the talk “What Lack I yet?” By Elder Larry R. Lawrence ( October 2015) He explains that this is daily schooling.We can ask our Heavenly Father and he will step by step guide us on what we can do that day to move forward towards Him. The answers can be simple…”be kind to your husband” “clean your room” “visit your neighbor”. The kicker is if we want to be tutored with a step by step guide by the Holy Ghost we must be prepared to follow.
“As we travel along that strait and narrow path, the Spirit continually challenges us to be better and to climb higher. The Holy Ghost makes an ideal traveling companion. If we are humble and teachable, He will take us by the hand and lead us home.” -Elder Larry R. Lawrence
If your college professor asks you to do an assignment…you must do it, to pass the class. There is a reason for the assignment he asks you to do, because it will help solidify the lecture that he gave. He is attempting to help the knowledge that he taught you, become your own knowledge. Our Heavenly Father is the same, He wants us to have His understand and knowledge, but we must do the homework he asks us to do.
Mathew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
During this year of the New Testament, We are going to focus on writing down the questions that come to our mind, and then taking them individually to the Lord.
President Harold B. Lee taught, “Every one of us, if we would reach perfection, must [at] one time ask ourselves this question, ‘What lack I yet?’”
“The Holy Ghost doesn’t tell us to improve everything at once. If He did, we would become discouraged and give up. The Spirit works with us at our own speed, one step at a time.” -Elder Larry R. Lawrence
2 Nephi 28:30 For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have.
Here is the link to commentary on “Seek and you shall find” https://spiritualcrusade.com/2019/01/forgiveness-come-follow-me-we-are-responsible-for-our-own-learning.html
Here is another commentary on the 10 virgins: https://spiritualcrusade.com/2019/01/the-parable-of-the-ten-virgins-come-follow-me-we-are-responsible-for-our-own-learning-2.html
-Sherri Jorgensen
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